Australian Museum

The Australian Museum is a heritage-listed museum located at 1 William Street in Sydney's central business area. It is Australia's oldest museum and the world's fifth oldest natural history museum, having a worldwide reputation in natural history and anthropology. It was founded on the modern European model of an encyclopedic warehouse of cultural and natural history, including collections of vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, geology, paleontology, and anthropology.

The museum is also interested in Indigenous studies research and community initiatives in addition to displays. The museum's first goal was collecting, and specimens were often swapped with British and other European institutions. The museum's scientific reputation was created during the curatorship of Gerard Krefft, a published scientist himself. The Colonial Museum or Sydney Museum was formerly located at the junction of William Street and College Street in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government region of New South Wales.

Location: 1 William St, Sydney, NSW 2010

Website: australian.museum